Vatican says Evolution does not prove the non-existence of God
By TIMES ONLINE
Added: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 UTC
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Evolution and the Biblical account of Genesis are "perfectly compatible" claims the Catholic Church
Richard Owen in Rome
The Vatican has rejected the claim by Richard Dawkins, the biologist and campaigning atheist, that evolutionary theory proves that God does not exist, proclaiming that on the contrary Darwinian evolution and the account of Creation in Genesis are "perfectly compatible".
At a five day conference held to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwinâs On the Origin of Species this week, Vatican theologians said while Christians believed that God "created all things", the Vatican "does not stand in the way of scientific realities".
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